TY - INPR
ID - cogprints7619
UR - http://cogprints.org/7619/
A1 - Schwenkler, Dr. John
TI - Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?
Y1 - 2011///
N2 - Many philosophers have held that it is not possible to experience a spatial object, property, or relation except against the background of an intact awareness of a space that is somehow ?absolute?. This paper challenges that claim, by analyzing in detail the case of a brain-damaged subject whose visual experiences seem to have violated this condition: spatial objects and properties were present in his visual experience, but space itself was not. I go on to suggest that phenomenological argumentation can give us a kind of evidence about the nature of the mind even if this evidence is not absolutely incorrigible.
AV - public
KW - spatial representation
KW - visual perception
KW - Balint's syndrome
KW - phenomenology
ER -